Here you will find some of the greatest quotes about Social justice.
I’m afraid having a good core concept is not enough in a complicated world.
Social justice is not entirely achievable.
The world is inherently unfair.
People will never have the same opportunities.
Wealth is naturally unequal. If we try to give everyone exactly the same wealth, the only way is to make everyone poor (communism).
Opportunity is naturally unequal.
Of course, diversity has a lot of benefits and must be encouraged and invested in. Just maybe not… enforced?
When we strive for something good and unachievable, the attempt is still largely beneficial. It improves the way things are.
If our goal is to bring the number of nuclear weapons on earth down a hundred times and we achieve half our goal, it’s still a great success.
And while the world does need some radical ideas, others just lose touch with the reality of their real-life consequences.
I do believe oppressed people have the absolute right to be angry and should be, otherwise change won’t happen. No one is to blame but it’s our collective responsibility to fix it.
The language used and cancel culture are counterproductive to making actual progress.
In a classic filter bubble example, the social justice movement is somewhat unaware of how some of its loud statements and well-meant but still freedom-reducing actions look to people outside the movement.
Wealth is largely generational.
To talk about modern white people being guilty of slavery is insane.
Guilt is not a helpful emotion and should never be invoked.
If you want something to happen, give it the best possible name. Not one that will divide people, provide it with one that would unite them.
The social justice movement is just terrible at branding and thus also terrible at uniting people, leading instead to division and more right-wing extremism.
No one except dictators ever had the rare luxury of not having to be diplomatic.
Ideas are only as good for actual change as our expression of these ideas.
If we ask about Money, the proper way is to phrase the problem and then ask “would you consider helping”… Anything more aggressive and guilt-inducing becomes counter productive. People really don’t like when we encroach on their Freedom.
Be persistent but not aggressive.
There is a line you better not cross, or you lose your listener.
We’re not judging a person here or even a group of people. We’re judging a system of people, beliefs and actions.
We have clearly lost common ground and language. And Social Justice is one of the major driving factors for this.
The uncompromising nature of the Social Justice movement comes from its obsession with equality. It reminds me of the just as unhealthy obsession of right-wing / religious / morality extremists with purity. Striving for full equality is in a way striving for purity. And purity in a messy world just doesn’t exist.
Entitlement will not find you allies. It breeds enemies.
The canceled person is… well, canceled. They will not change their views just because the world tells them to. Probably the opposite.
The canceled people form weird support communities where radicalization is inevitable.
Canceling is not dialogue. It’s merciless destruction.
Today, on this very day, scientists will find but not share actual findings because they are not culturally acceptable. It’s no longer science if you’re not allowed to share any logical conclusion of your research.
The last thing we need is identity politics pressure on the process of finding the Truth.
Just let science be Science and get out of its way.
So cancelling people is bad… but do you know what is a very similar and actually great idea? Canceling companies.
Companies are not people and can be hurt without it being immoral; If they fail, others will take their place.
Unethical companies or ones with very bad products / services should not exist. Destroy them!
Polarization is directly hurting society, but is also damaging the mental health of the radicalized so we can be sure that they will suffer, make others suffer too and become more polarized in time.
The information war in a divided world can no longer be won for any side, just lost for all of humanity. The only path forward is searching for and finding common ground.
The thoughts and words we use seep into our culture and have a power of their own.
People are not one-dimensional, and their character is not set in stone. Even if I think that Jeff Bezos is not nice and would probably never be, why take away the small chance for a positive change in a human?
Fair critique for acting like a dick is well deserved, but there is never any practical upside to the emotion of hating a human being. Big companies, however, are nothing to feel sorry for, especially monopolies with a proven track record of ruining lives.
If they deserve it, hit them hard. And due to their responsibility to their shareholders, companies can actually change rules and practices quite fast if downfall is on the wall.
People don’t develop empathy under hate. But companies develop better rules and practices under scrutiny.
Some industries are evil by nature and structure.
So if you want to contribute to wealth inequality, the best way is to… become part of the problem. If you’re wealthy, you have the means (time, resources, money to divest) to fight wealth inequality.
If you really mean well, it’s moral to become rich, as long as you’re committed to spending your wealth in ways beneficial to others.
I self-identify as a feminist and have learned to see past my male privilege how society pressures women in profoundly unfair ways.
Women have less self-esteem in a trust-based, Bullshit-tolerant world where the ignorant person who boldly claims to be able to handle a project is chosen over the quiet person who actually can handle it… but doesn’t apply due to self-doubts.
Women are disproportionately affected by the huge but hidden fear of being a bad person.
Every man and woman has unlimited potential.
We all achieve a tiny part of what we could achieve if we could make the right choices regarding what brings and keeps Hunter mode.
If we could change and improve and learn every day, we have such a huge unfair advantage over other people who are stuck 99% of the time that becoming wealthy and successful would be a zero-effort side effect of our life.
Life is never fair. What we choose to do with unfair situations and how we react to them is the most important thing.
I am thankful for some cases when I have been treated unfairly because it opened my eyes about what I want and how the world works.
Life always has options. Complaining (even when completely justified) distracts you from searching for options.
I’ll say the political, cultural and religious systems built by men are at fault for history.
Women are more empathetic in general and can be great leaders.
Blaming modern men for all past wrongs is not a good path forward.
Blame is not constructive, even when deserved.
Men are quite ignorant about many of the challenges women face and need to hear about them from their loved ones in an emotional and personal way. Then they will understand.
Let’s fully accept our responsibilities of the present but try not to assign blame for a past not built by us.
Extreme public messaging only makes the problems worse.
The upbringing teaches girls to be more moral than experimental and more cautious rather than brave. It’s a problem of clueless parents passing their Fears and Sheep mode mentality to their kids and more to the girls than the boys.
We need a much better Education system that stimulates Freedom, not conformity.
This is not a fair mix of solutions. But we’re not the Social Justice Movement here. We’re the Make it Better Movement.
Gender equality is seriously flawed (mainly by men) and we can’t have justice and Progress at the same time. And I choose progress, because women are amazing and they deserve it.
Humans biologically have higher Trust in individuals that look and behave like them.
Almost all white people have at least some implicit bias, so even well-meaning people can make racially motivated decisions.
Wealth and opportunity are not equal for white vs other people. Although the world is naturally unequal, the color of someone’s skin should definitely not be the deciding factor.
If you have free time and want to mentor someone young, why not choose a person disadvantaged by race? This makes also sure your implicit bias is overridden.
Creating any rule based on affirmative action is a powder keg. You may expect people to understand but being on the losing side of even a small injustice (or a perceived one) reveals a very dark, primitive side in almost all human beings. Anger, when treated unfairly, is built into us at such a deep biological level that even monkeys show the same behavior in experiments. You cannot change biology. You can only listen to it.
You cannot solve a millennia-old cultural problem with a simple rule like a quota and not expect any collateral damage. This is not how the world works.
Any affirmative action that goes beyond racial discrimination prevention makes white people very angry.
Reality doesn’t care about moral high grounds. It always returns to slap purists in the face.
Angry people benefit no one and certainly not the group their anger is focused on. I’m sure we can do better.
We just lose too much of our collective social capital for a small potential gain. So let’s stop doing it.
The place for brave affirmative action is in our private decisions, not public policy.
Total fairness does not exist.
Color-blindness is a slow approach which means more injustice will be experienced in time. But I prefer to get there in the end and not risk making everything worse.
Tens of millions of human beings had to live in Fear and hide their true feelings and identity just because they were different in just one of the many regards of human life. A personal regard which shouldn’t really concern others at all.
Love is a good bridge for empathy between people.
Learning that gay people exist won’t make a single straight kid gay. This is not how it works.
When did you choose to be straight? Exactly.
And who would choose to be gay if it was a choice? Harder life, discrimination, hate and reducing the pool of your potential partners 20 times… for what upside? People are irrational, but not that much.
Just bring all the empathy you have to the table and get to know individual people. You’ll find out they are just people like you and me.
Having to walk on eggshells in everyday conversations contributes to everyone’s anxiety in an already anxious world.
If you force 99% of the population to make any effort so 1% of the population don’t accidentally get their feelings hurt by a word that is not offensive or intentional, trust me, you’re playing with social fire.
Let’s have perspective and use our energy and resources where they are most desperately needed.
Let creators create art. Art cannot be planned and any type of pressure on it is extremely damaging.
We should strive to relieve art from political pressure.
Massive social unrest is one of the most serious threats to humanity.
A growing number of people are so angry in their filter bubble that they want to see the world burn.
In terms of ideas, rights and the fight for spreading information and getting attention, Social Justice is making a lot of progress. But this comes at the price of radicalization of the ones we blame or leave behind.
Many white men have the dangerous feeling of being cornered and attacked from all directions.
Reality has to be more important than equality in its impossibly pure form.
Let reality guide us.
Twitter and other short-form environments are structurally divisive and attract many trolls of the worst kind.
Every time before you post, ask yourself three questions: Am I at least 99% certain my post is objectively true? Does this post add valuable ideas or insights? Will this post have a uniting effect on society?
Society cannot handle more division. If you want to be a trailblazer, be a uniting one. We need them. We need you!
